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I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.
John Green
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Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don't treat everything superficially. And I think, when people talk about nerdiness, what they're really talking about is smart people who who are trying to think hard about the world. And I don't think that's an insult, I think that's a great thing.
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That was part of her, and you used to know it. It's like now you only care about the Alaska you made up.
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Remember that time in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, when we didn't die?
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For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.
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Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me out of my sentimentality. For me at least, fiction is the only way I can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.
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Your responsibility is not to the people you're making the gift for, but the gift itself.
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It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.
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Colin Singleton’s distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.
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I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social strategy
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I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.
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It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.
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You know how we make a Scotch and water in this home? No, sir, Gus said. We pour Scotch into a glass and then call to mind thoughts of water, and then we mix the actual Scotch with the abstracted idea of water.
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Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.
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The challenge is the same whether or not I'm collaborating: to empathize with your reader and to tell a story that will matter to him or her. But the mechanics of going about that challenge change when you're collaborating, because you have someone to help refine your thinking and expand your vision of what might happen.
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You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.
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there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars
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After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.
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If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.
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That's why people grow weary of listening to Dumpees obsess over their troubles: getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring. They want to stay friends they feel smothered it's always them and it's never you and afterward, you're devastated and their relieved it's over for them and just starting for you.
John Green
It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.
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